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frosty

UK/ˈfɹɒsti//ˈfɹɔsti/

frosty adjective: cold, chilly; icy.

Adjective

frosty (comparative frostier, superlative frostiest)

  1. Cold, chilly; icy.
    • The air was frosty; I could see my breath and walked quickly with my hands in my pockets.
    • I'd like a frosty milkshake.
  2. Having frost on it or in it.
    • The frosty pumpkin is the sign of the end of the growing season, soon the greenery will wither and harvest end for the year.
    • The frosty beverage gave him a brain freeze.
  3. (figuratively) Having an aloof or inhospitable manner.
    • After the divorce, she was civil but frosty to her ex.
    • Chilly from the start, she grows ever frostier as the book proceeds, partly because Mr. Martin has difficulty translating her sexual abandon to anything beyond “sexual due process.”2010 November 28, Janet Maslin, “A New York Tale of Art, Money and Ambition”, in The New York Times

Proper noun capitalized: Frosty

Frosty

  1. A generic name for a snowman.

frosty meaning in Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Arabic

frosty in Telugu

ఫ్రాస్టీ

frosty in Malayalam

അതിശീതളമായ, മഞ്ഞുമൂടിയ, ശൈത്യമുള്ള, തുഷാരം നിറഞ്ഞ

frosty in Kannada

ಫ್ರಾಸ್ಟಿ

frosty in Arabic

having an aloof or inhospitable manner
بارد

Examples of frosty in a sentence

  • Network Rail had previously been reported to be frosty about reopening the South Sub [South Suburban Railway] to passenger traffic - but things appear to have changed.2025 November 26, Conrad Landin, “Edinburgh eyes on tram-trains?”, in RAIL, number 1049, pages 34-35:
  • Keir Starmer has met Andy Burnham for the first time since the Makerfield byelection in what sources said was a “frosty” meeting to thrash out a transition of power.2026 June 23, Pippa Crerar, “Burnham and Starmer hold ‘frosty’ meeting to thrash out transition of power”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

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Synonyms of frosty

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Forms of frosty

comparativefrostier
superlativefrostiest

Origin of frosty

From Middle English frosty, forsty, from Old English forstiġ, fyrstiġ (“frosty”), from Proto-West Germanic *frostag, *frustīg, By surface analysis, frost + -y. Cognates Cognate with West Frisian froastich (“frosty”), Dutch vorstig (“frosty”), German Low German fröstig (“frosty”), German frostig (“frosty”), Swedish frostig (“frosty”). Compare also Saterland Frisian froasterch (“frosty”), German Low German frösterg (“frosty”).

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Questions about frosty

What does frosty mean?
Frosty means cold, chilly; icy.
What is frosty in Telugu?
Frosty in Telugu is ఫ్రాస్టీ. See Frosty meaning in Telugu.
How do you use frosty in a sentence?
Network Rail had previously been reported to be frosty about reopening the South Sub [South Suburban Railway] to passenger traffic - but things appear to have changed.
What part of speech is frosty?
Frosty can be an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce frosty?
Frosty is pronounced /ˈfɹɒsti/ (UK).

Words near frosty in the dictionary

  1. frostweed
  2. frostweeds
  3. frostwork
  4. frostworks
  5. frostwort
  6. frosty
  7. frosty moon
  8. frosty moons
  9. frosty one
  10. frosty ones
  11. frosé

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: frosty (page history and authors); Frosty (page history and authors); frosty (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); frosty (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); frosty (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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